5.3 PTR Patch Notes are live!

The 5.3 PTR patch notes are already here and a lot of interesting changes are coming.

Some of the highlights include:

4 New Scenarios, and a brand new heroic difficulty for Scenarios

A new Battleground - Gold Rush located in Valley of the Four Winds.

Loot Specialization - you can now pick which spec you receive loot for (helpful for gearing offsets!)

Bonus Rolls now have a proection from bad luck streaks, each roll gets a progressively higher chance at loot.

Blizzard

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 5.3

General

Please note: During the 5.3 PTR, not all the content listed may not be available for testing or may only be available during a limited testing window. Keep an eye on our PTR Discussion forum for details.New Battleground: Gold Rush

In the new Battleground situated in the Valley of the Four Winds, the Alliance and Horde continue their war for Pandaria’s precious resources. While the two factions battle for control over mines, they must also protect their own resources from being stolen and turned against them!

New Arena: Shado-Pan

Gladiator hopefuls have a new location to test their mettle amidst the Kun-Lai mountain tops, in the training grounds of the powerful Shado-Pan. Players must make use of the looming tiger statues and fenced platforms to gain an advantage that will bring victory and glory!

New Scenario: Battle on the High Seas

Help your faction fend off enemy forces in the midst of a battle for naval supremacy on the High Seas.

New Scenario: Blood in the Snow

An agent of Zandalar has infiltrated Dun Morogh and rallied the Frostmane trolls. At Varian’s request, Moira will lead her personal guard against them once the king’s champions have stopped the magical storm protecting Shimmer Ridge.

New Scenario: Dark Heart of Pandaria

Goblin engineers have been excavating in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to find a mysterious artifact, but all they've found is trouble; you have been personally called upon by the Warchief to aid them in their hour of need.

New Scenario: The Secrets of Emberdeep

Infiltrate the Emberdeep Caverns and assist the Gob Squad in investigating a recent disappearance in Durotar.

Heroic Scenarios

A heroic difficulty for Scenarios have been added and are designed to provide challenging content for small groups of well-seasoned adventurers. Completing a Heroic Scenario awards Valor points, and a chance to obtain Raid Finder quality items.

Quests

Creatures

Haz de espíritu de fuego no longer increases in damage with each jump, deals a flat 200,000 damage(up from 150,000 damage), and jumps to 99 targets (up from 20 targets).

Pet Battles

Dueling for Pet Battles are now available in all dungeons and raids. Enjoy!

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Loot Specialization

Players can now choose to receive loot for a specialization that's different from their current class role. This feature could be accessed by right-clicking on the character portrait and selecting the option from the drop-down list. Loot specialization is available for bonus rolls, Raid Finder, and Pandarian quest rewards.

Raids

Bonus Roll

Protection for bad luck streaks have been added to bonus rolls. Each bonus roll that does not provide loot has a progressively better chance to award loot to the player.

PvP

A blog with additional information and explanation for the reasoning behind PvP changes will be available very soon.

All characters now have a base Resilience of 65%.

Resilience has been removed from most PvP gear.

Season 13 Tyrannical gear had their item levels increased to ilevel 496, up from ilevel 493.

Season 13 Tyrannical Elite gear had their item levels decreased to ilevel 496, down from ilevel 512.

Battlegrounds, Rated Battlegrounds, and Arenas now have an ilevel cap. All gear will be scaled down to ilevel 496.

Battlegrounds

More information coming soon.

Professions

Herbalists of low skill can now pick herbs in Pandaria for a small amount of usable material. The yield an herbalist will be able to harvest from each node is determined by skill level.

Miners of low skill can now mine mineral deposits in Pandaria for a small amount of usable material. The yield a miner will be able to harvest from each node is determined by skill level.

Items

The Voidbinders are back in capital cities and shrines.

PvE Item Upgrades

Items upgradable by Valor now require 250 Valor to upgrade per 4 item levels, for a total of 500 Valor for 8 item levels per item. This is retroactive to all items that use Valor.

Items upgradable by Justice now require 750 Justice to upgrade per 8 item levels, for a total of 750 Justice for 8 item levels per item. This is retroactive to all items that use Justice.

PvP Item Upgrades

Malevolent Gladiator’s Conquest (Season 12) items that have upgrades available are still upgradable at their original costs.

Dreadful Gladiator’s Honor (Season 12) items that have upgrades available are still upgradable at their original costs.

No other PvP items are upgradable.

Unclaimed Black Market Containers are now available on the Black Market Auction House. What's inside? It's a mystery! When opened, the container has a chance to contain any item that can be available on the BMAH.

Courageous Primal Diamond had its clearcasting effect renamed to “Lucidity” to differentiate it from other spells with that name.

Comentario de Adamsm

Comentario de Theraaw

Wondering how they're gonna go about with removing resillience from most PvP gear

Comentario de tr1gger

on 2013-03-22T20:20:13-05:00

Interesting notes....

Comentario de Zombloat

on 2013-03-22T20:25:28-05:00

I really hope the Engineering stuff makes a comeback in this patch. Greatly looking forward to creating new things :)

Comentario de scolonyix

on 2013-03-22T20:26:33-05:00

Why come with a new patch this early, have just got in 5.2

I hope u will make sure it takes some time be4 ya will come with the patch.

Comentario de Ovahealz

on 2013-03-22T20:31:42-05:00

Really hoping this is an early April Fool's Joke. Resilience removed from game? Arenas scaling? If Blizzard doesn't want us to PVP then just get rid of it, don't make it completely and utterly useless.

Comentario de zombelord

on 2013-03-22T20:33:07-05:00

My brain is full of f*** from what they're doing with PvP.

Comentario de Adamsm

on 2013-03-22T20:36:22-05:00

Players can now choose to receive loot for a specialization that's different from their current class role. This feature could be accessed by right-clicking on the character portrait and selecting the option from the drop-down list. Loot specialization is available for bonus rolls, Raid Finder, and Pandarian quest rewards.

Very nice; looking forward to that.

Comentario de Cyridan

on 2013-03-22T20:39:39-05:00

April's Fool :DDD 3:) damn blizz =)))

Comentario de baradiel

on 2013-03-22T20:45:04-05:00

Players can now choose to receive loot for a specialization that's different from their current class role. This feature could be accessed by right-clicking on the character portrait and selecting the option from the drop-down list. Loot specialization is available for bonus rolls, Raid Finder, and Pandarian quest rewards.

Very nice; looking forward to that.

Yes indeed, glad i haven't leveled my Druid...

Comentario de Sas148

on 2013-03-22T20:53:48-05:00

Why come with a new patch this early, have just got in 5.2

I hope u will make sure it takes some time be4 ya will come with the patch.

It'll be quite awhile before this patch comes out... several months.

Comentario de xunce

on 2013-03-22T20:54:40-05:00

Dudeman, the big MoP feature is going to be something along the lines of scaling your character down to participate in older raids and dungeons. Imagine, bringing your lvl 90 to tank with your friend who's level 25 and wants to level. Imagine, finding a FULL 40 people and being scaled to lvl 70 and running Black Temple.

Imagine, a limitless World of Warcraft.

Comentario de ziva1991

on 2013-03-22T20:55:19-05:00

so if i get this right. every player will have 65% resilience. That means i farmed all pvp gear . for nothing. plus that my slacker of a arena partner is auto g2g in next patch. this cant be true it isn't right. i hope this is just a big joke if not im sure im gonna sell my 4 gametime cards.

i already quit raiding cuz its 2 boring and 2 easy. LFR is too easy! I wiped more in Lfr DS then in the Lfr ToT one.

i think they are going to kill Wow and then after wow died they release titan. or whatever that game is going to be called. its still not finished and they are working on it since 2006.

poor poor wow

Comentario de Warleofscilla

on 2013-03-22T21:00:23-05:00

RIP 5 mans

Comentario de Adamsm

on 2013-03-22T21:08:58-05:00

RIP 5 mans

....Well until the next expansion....

Comentario de baradiel

on 2013-03-22T21:13:08-05:00

RIP 5 mans

....Well until the next expansion....

If they made Scenarios then they need to keep doing more Scenarios for the next and next expansions...

Comentario de Espenxx

on 2013-03-22T21:19:34-05:00

so if i get this right. every player will have 65% resilience. That means i farmed all pvp gear . for nothing. plus that my slacker of a arena partner is auto g2g in next patch. this cant be true it isn't right. i hope this is just a big joke if not im sure im gonna sell my 4 gametime cards.

Well, they want us to stack PvP Power like a madman then.

Comentario de Harvoc2

on 2013-03-22T21:20:13-05:00

so if i get this right. every player will have 65% resilience. That means i farmed all pvp gear . for nothing. plus that my slacker of a arena partner is auto g2g in next patch. this cant be true it isn't right. i hope this is just a big joke if not im sure im gonna sell my 4 gametime cards.

i already quit raiding cuz its 2 boring and 2 easy. LFR is too easy! I wiped more in Lfr DS then in the Lfr ToT one.

i think they are going to kill Wow and then after wow died they release titan. or whatever that game is going to be called. its still not finished and they are working on it since 2006.

poor poor wow

I'm not sure if you can read, but NOWHERE in the patch notes does it say that PvP power is being removed. So all your precious gear is NOT useless.

Comentario de Rivnez

on 2013-03-22T21:20:46-05:00

Or u still have PVP power and since pve scales down then u still need pvp gear and it should be much easier to balance making it simpler.

Comentario de IcyFrozen

on 2013-03-22T21:21:12-05:00

First off, its a little early for the April Fools edition.

I like the progressively better odds at items (I still havent gotten the cloak to drop in Dread Approach) but it seems to me that your still not going to increase the odds of getting what you want. I think the better option would be to give each player a once-per-week bonus to a single loot roll. The player opts to use their bonus and gets a bonus to that specific roll.

I'm not a PvP player, but it does occur to me that they indicated 'base' so that leads me to think theirs going to be additional modifiers on that. I see Blizz moving PvP toward other MMOs, like Swtor, where the battlegrounds are levelled taking your gear out of the equation. I don't like it, but thats what it looks like.

I've seen no reason to do Scenarios. They offer little loot, little reward, their slower then Dungeons and I still get a repair bill.. Seriously Blizz if thats a direction your choosing then you need a reward structure. So the addition of other Scenarios does nothing for me, would have loved some new Dungeons but I have a feeling that Blizz is killing Dungeons to favor Scenarios/LFR.

I would have liked to see some more pets added to the remaining old raids to encourage players to go back and play the old content like was done with molten core etc. Especially if they are decreasing the difficulty of Vashj etc.